Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When women in North Africa and the Arab world are struggling so hard for equality and respect , it is ironic that here in France a fundamentalist minority is pushing them to conform to tradition . |
| 2 | That is why we are pressing so hard for Russia , Ukraine and other republics to be admitted to the IMF as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 4 | Willy was driving too fast for safety , naturally , but that did n't become apparent until we started down the hill . ’ |
| 5 | You might start complaining that all these changes are happening too rapidly for comfort . |
| 6 | During other attacks , Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff — metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet 's radar . |
| 7 | Already , though , the examiners are looking not only for knowledge of syllabus content but also for those intellectual qualities that make a successful chartered accountant . |
| 8 | FRIGHTENED of China 's growing power , Taiwan 's government is looking further afield for support . |
| 9 | ‘ In our case , I think people were looking further afield for education without realising that they had a very good facility close to home . |
| 10 | He had his own rooms and spent the last few years of his life reading and receiving a stream of aristocratic visitors , including the princess of Wales , venturing forth occasionally for trips to the theatre organized through the actress Madge Kendal [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | She jumped to her feet , looking wildly round for escape , but he stood directly between her and the door . |
| 12 | That got me moving east fast , searching hard now for access to the quire . |
| 13 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 14 | EVERYTHING was going so swimmingly for Johnny Bryan . |
| 15 | I have n't been there for oh I 'm always going down there for petrol now . |
| 16 | In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership . |
| 17 | For the sake of Oreste , she must be cool and calm and take matters into her own hands instead of waiting so feebly for fate to help her . |
| 18 | Money donated by parents is already paying not only for extras and luxuries but also for such basic tools of education as books , art materials and computers . |
| 19 | Anybody else going home today for lunch ? |
| 20 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 21 | Things seemed to be going fairly well for Town ; Dave Warner made a tremendous one handed save from Sammy Spence on thirteen minutes , whilst up the other end , Steve Jenkins , Kenny Clarke and Jimmy Austin all saw efforts cleared in a goalmouth melee . |
| 22 | Edward I , heading yet again for Scotland , died in July of that year , leaving the continuing conflict to his feeble son Edward II . |
| 23 | On 5 January 1201 Philip , the notary , and Cardinal Guido were sent : they had gone before Egidius returned with the news that things were going very badly for Otto . |
| 24 | The Po delta has been moving forward irresistibly for aeon upon aeon since late Tertiary times and will presumably , in the course of time , fill the Adriatic with its sediments from the decaying Alps . |
| 25 | On the other hand , they might be moving too fast for gravity to bring them back — like a rocket leaving the pull of Earth 's gravity . ’ |
| 26 | That 's moving too quickly for revivals . |
| 27 | Each features a very familiar rhyme accompanied by the kind of lively , funny pictures Colin and Jacqui Hawkins have been doing so well for years . |
| 28 | A great deal of hotel business comes from people travelling not just for holidays or sightseeing but by people travelling by virtue of their business activities . |
| 29 | It is hard to think of him doing any worse for England than the cardboard cut-outs who allegedly were playing midfield in Santander the other night . |
| 30 | Time running out here for Forest we 've got about nine minutes to play . |